Review: Chickpea Walnut Patties
Adriana of Vegan Magic has come up with a really tasty burger that is so simple to make. We really enjoyed these tonight for dinner. They had a nice spiciness, lots of flavor, and a nice crunch from the walnuts. We enjoyed them as patties, but they’d be great on a bun. or rolled into [...]
Review: Roasted Radish, Dried Fruit, and Pistachio Salad
Roasted radishes, what a surprise! They are delicious. Mild and nutty with a bot of a crunch still. Migle of My Kitchen Affair has posted a really amazing salad. Filled with contrasting, complimenting flavors and textures. This is a really delicious salad, and very easy to make. The dressing is a very important part of [...]
Review: Quinoa and Kale Patties
The recipe for Quinoa and Kale Patties comes from Heidi Swanson’s cookbook Super Natural Every Day. The price of the book has recently been lowered to $13.00. Although not vegan, Heidi does cook very healthy recipes with natural ingredients. This recipe was very tasty and simple to make it vegan by substituting the eggs, and using [...]
Review: Potted giant beans with mixed vegetables
We found a new food blog that we quite enjoy: Amateur cook professional eater. Even though the recipes are not vegan, there are many that are, and most are quite healthy as well. It’s a Greek food blog. Often simple folk recipes are vegan, or at least easy to adapt. The Greeks are really god [...]
Review: Black-eyed beans and roasted beetroots salad
We recently found the recipe on a blog that specializes in original Greek recipes. The recipe is a really delicious and colorful salad. After enjoying it for lunch, we added some chopped walnuts to the salad which also really tasted nice and added some crunch to the salad. We did change the cooking method however. [...]
Review: Black-eyed Pea and Barley Stew
We woke to a white world blanketed in snow this morning. This was a perfect meal to enjoy on such a day, in fact on any day as it is truly delicious, hearty and filling. Cathy of the what would cathy eat? blog has an interesting story to tell and many good recipes to share. [...]
Review: Carrot and Swede Fritters with Coriander and Lime Chutney
Sanjana of the K.O Rasoi blog has created a really delicious recipe using rutabaga (swede), carrots and sweet potato, with a coriander lime chutney. This was rally great. We did change one thing. We steamed the vegetables lightly instead of boiling them. Then continued as per the instructions. It’s an easy recipe to make, especially if [...]
Review: Sweet Carrot Pie with Chocolate Sauce (vegan)
What a delicious treat this was! It is one of the many recipes we’ve cooked and enjoyed from Joahua Ploeg’s adventure cookbook called ‘In search of The Lost Taste‘. I had never heard of sweet carrot pie before, and have been looking forward to making it for a long time. It used fresh, grated carrots [...]
Review: Lemony wheat berries with roasted brussels sprouts
Kiersten of the Oh My Veggies food blog posted this delicious recipe a while ago. It looked so inviting that we just had to make it, and we were so glad we did. Wheat berries are the entire wheat kernel and cooked they can be eaten as a side dish instead of rice or corn. How delicious [...]
Review: Parsnip and Blackeyed Bean Soup
We made this delicious soup last week, honoring the Southern tradition of having black-eyed peas (beans) on New Year’s Day. This is a delicious and nutritious soup and we will be having it more often throughout the winter months. The soup has many great vegetables: parsnips, carrots, leafy greens, onions as well as the black-eyed [...]
Review: Mahjouba (Algerian Crêpes)
These Algerian crepes with a tomato-based filling are delicious and would make a great party snack! We saw them at What the hell does a vegan eat anyhow? and they had seen the recipe at saveur.com. On our first attempt, the semolina dough gave us problems. It could be that there are different semolina flours [...]
Review: Roasted Beets with Walnut, Garlic and Potato Spread (Pantzaria me Skordalia)
This traditional Greek recipe is absolutely delicious! Please give it a try. The spread made from walnuts, garlic and mashed potatoes is outstanding and tastes great with the roasted beets. We enjoyed this for lunch. It would also make good party food, or even a spread to go along with bread or toast rounds. Both [...]
Review: Brussels Sprout and Grape Galette
We saw this recipe a while ago, and have been looking forward to making a vegan version of it. What a delicious meal this was! It’s very easy to make and adapt to being vegan. It merely took replacing the butter with vegan margarine, the sour cream was replaced with soy cream and using vegan [...]
Review: Chestnut, Celery Root and Apple Soup
We really enjoyed a vegan adapted version of this tasty soup by Dorie Greenspan on Thanksgiving. What a lovely combination the celery root, chestnuts and apples make. We used vegetable bouillon to make the soup, and at the end soy cream. Otherwise, it was made according to the recipe. It’s a filling hearty soup with [...]
Review: Tagliatelle with Garlic and Toasted Walnuts
This is one of our favorite meals, especially now in the fall after harvesting our own walnuts. The recipe is quick and easy to make. We use vegan margarine instead of the butter, and do not use any cheese at all, nor cheese replacements. We enjoy the pure flavors of the garlic and walnuts and [...]
Review: Tomato-Rhubarb Soup
What a tasty soup this is! Chriesi at the Almond Corner blog has a really interesting and delicious soup recipe. It is vegan, so we made the soup according to the recipe, and it tasted great. We have a lot of rhubarb in our garden and freeze it regularly during the season so that we [...]
Review: Radish Recipes from Martha
We have grown a new vegetable in our garden this year. It’s often considered to be a forgotten vegetable – it’s a Black (Skinned) Radish (Rapahnus sativus). What a surprise it has been. It’s delicious, mild and crispy and is considered good to grow in the winter. So, now that our black radishes are mature, [...]
Review: Mushroom Goulash
We found this tasty simple recipe at the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau website. It was very good. To make it a vegan recipe, we merely used egg-free noodles and replaced the sour cream with soy yogurt. The mushroom goulash recipe was vegan already. We did not have dill at the time, so we used chives as [...]
Review: Pear Galette with a Gingerbread Crust
What a delicious treat this was, and so easy to adapt and make as a vegan dessert. The gingerbread crust tastes fantastic with the pears. We substituted vegan margarine for the butter, and an egg replacement (Orgran “No Egg”) for the egg yoke, and it turned out perfect. Instead of the whipped cream we made [...]
Review: Gnocchi with Summer Vegetables
We’re hanging on to summer a little bit longer with this tasty recipe we found at Martha Stewart’s blog. It’s a very simple recipe and tastes delicious. It was easy to adapt to being vegan, merely changing the butter and the cheese to non-dairy vegan products. We’ve grown both the yellow and green zucchini in [...]
Review: Zucchini Pickles
Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks is a superb cook, as well as a great photographer and writer. She has written many good cookbooks. Heidi is not vegan, however vegetarian and always has very healthy recipes. Our zucchini plants have done very well this year and so we were looking for ways to preserve them. We [...]
Review: Roasted Cauliflower with Date Syrup
We found this delicious recipe at the site of the Bon Appetit Magazine. Tahini and dates really blend well and bring out the lovely sweet nutty flavor of roasted cauliflower. If you can’t find date syrup, you can cut open a few dates, discard the seed, add a bit of hot water and whiz in [...]
Review: Rosemary Marinated Puy Lentil and Sweet Pepper Salad
A nice lentil salad is a great way to add protein and make a lighter meal more hearty. We made this tasty salad that we found at the Maple Spice blog. We doubled the amount so there was enough for the two of us. I made it the day before so that it could marinate [...]
Review: Potato and Tempeh Curry
We made the vegan version of this delicious meal offered by Elizabeth of the Greens and Seeds blog. She was inspired by Heidi Swanson’s Tempeh Curry, We just harvested some of our potato crop this ear and have been looking forward to new recipes using the harvest. This was perfect. It’s a mild curry that [...]
